Mark Hydration Levels Through Urine Color

Here’s a guide to mark you develop acute dehydration or not. To ensure that our body hydrated, you can see it from checking the color of urine is expelled. Depth of color of urine indicates the state and water balance in the body.

Indonesian Doctors Association (IDI) issued a way that can detect levels of hydration of a personin a way that called PURI (Self Check Urine). Here, available urine color chart consisting of eight colors from the color starts to clear up murky yellow. When the clear-colored urine, then it shows good body hydration status. If the urine shows dark orange color indicates the need for the body gets more water in take immediately in order to lose body fluids can be replaced and the condition of body fluid balance.

Here’s how to do PURI:
- All types of urine can be used, not the origin of urine in the morning when I wake up.
- Most ideal to use “mid-stream urine”, ie the urine comes out in the middle when we urinate.
- Urine is collected in sufficient amount in a clean and white/clear, then we compare the color of urine is the color charts according to posters and stickers distributed PDGMI.
- Do a comparison of color under white fluorescent light or sunlight. Avoid this urine examined under ultraviolet light yellow or other colors because it can make the examination to bebiased.
- Do not forget also that the color of urine is also influenced by drugs or certain diets.
- PURI was developed by Prof. Armstrong, sports medicine experts from the United States. His discovery has been used in several major sporting events like the Olympics in Beijing and Athens.

For IMA, by encouraging the habit PURI is expected to continue to maintain and monitor their urine color owned. With more and more alert at a good level of hydration, then any individual can monitor the amount of fluid required.